Lads, it would be brilliant if we could compile a few 'How to fit kadee' Guides or pics on Irish stuff!
I know the 141,181,201,071 locos all have NEM sockets, as do the MK2s and recent stuff, but the MKIIIs and other items would be very useful!
Link: http://taraspalace.ie/
It does well enough to generate €40,000 in profits to donate to Charity each year.
Powerscourt is a good choice too, as is stuffed to the gills with tourists all season long.
The Tara's palace doll museum (which co-habited in Malahide with the Fry) seems to be happily set up in Powerscourt House in Enniskerry these last good few months, looks well there too.
Can you give us some basic pointers Frank, on how best to photo layouts, models?
It would make a great resources for all of us who's know-how is point a phone and press the button
Cheers lads, I reckon a low relief back of terrace with a brick and maybe sound barrier walling to the rear, and then taller industrial / warehouse type low relief with pallisade security fences...
At the bottom, I plan to create a 15 foot concrete wall, with vehicle gates across the back, for truck access to the yard....
More progress next week hopefully!
Any suggestions for back of the rearmost sidings? The shortlist at the moment is:
- Very low relief back of terraces with either tall concrete wall in front, or blue sound proof screening fence type thing
- Very low relief industrial / warehouse type buildings
- A mix of both above
- Just a big tall wall!
Or could do a 11 foot type wall, with some trees and stuff visible behind?
I saw a great tutorial I'm going to try on the next stretch. It basically involved painting PVA onto the shoulder, then applying the ballast.
This lets the ballast stick to the trackbed and stops it rolling off or piling up (as can clearly be seen on my first photo above)
A little more time, but probably worth a go.
I need to invest in a hand held dustbuster thing too, to help recover the unstuck ballast
Dry the Woodlands isn't as bad, but I'm stick going to use the Gaugemaster for the mainline and platform terminiii...
Ballasting is almost as much fun as wiring
Just found this http://www.scalescenes.com/products/R025-Water-Tower?PHPSESSID=1a152be57fe53873617daf341b31aba3
and noticed it looks enough like this http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20N/North%20Wall/slides/NorthWall_20090615_028_CC_JA.html
to be bashed into shape for the yard